{"id":12882,"date":"2018-07-23T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/news-6649\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:10:02","slug":"news-6649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/news-6649\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (July 16 \u2013 July 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:30:01 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week on Labs, we looked at a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2018\/07\/magniber-ransomware-improves-expands-within-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magniber expansion<\/a>, explored <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/5-ways-find-fix-open-source-vulnerabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open source vulnerabilities<\/a>, and checked out the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/whats-the-real-value-and-danger-of-smart-assistants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boons and drawbacks<\/a> of smart assistants. We also continued our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/how-to-block-ads-like-a-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad blocking article extravaganza<\/a>, gave a whistlestop tour of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2018\/07\/third-party-dangers-ads-pipelines-and-plugins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-party problems<\/a>, and published our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/malwarebytes-news\/ctnt-report\/2018\/07\/cybercrime-tactics-techniques-q2-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q2 Cybercrime tactics &amp; techniques report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Other news:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Huge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/shock-anger-and-worry-about-stolen-data-being-misused\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data breach in Singapore<\/a> (Source: Straights Times)<\/li>\n<li>Venmo and <a href=\"https:\/\/22-8miles.com\/public-by-default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public sharing<\/a> (Source: 22.8 miles)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/hundreds-thousands-us-voter-data-appeared-online-again-bob-diachenko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leaky storage buckets<\/a> (Source: Bob Diachenko, Linkedin post)<\/li>\n<li>The UK is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/joint-select\/national-security-strategy\/news-parliament-2017\/cyber-security-cni-report-published-17-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short on security experts<\/a> (Source: Parliament)<\/li>\n<li>Email blunder prompts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/07\/18\/ico_hands_sexual_abuse_inquiry_200k_fine_for_security_breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a3200k fine<\/a> (Source: The Register)<\/li>\n<li>Airport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/iclrffwox2h6s33\/Coronet_Cyber-Insecure-Airports_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wifi risks<\/a> [PDF] (Source: Coronet)<\/li>\n<li>80,000 healthcare records <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2018\/07\/20\/hackers-hold-80000-healthcare-records-to-ransom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held to ransom<\/a> (Source: Naked Security)<\/li>\n<li>Protecting yourself from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2018\/07\/19\/email-scams-real-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BEC scams<\/a> (Source: Help Net Security)<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft launches\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/msrc\/2018\/07\/17\/microsoft-launches-identity-bounty-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity bounty program<\/a> (Source: Microsoft)<\/li>\n<li>Telefonica breach &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/inquirer\/news\/3035980\/telefonica-breach-exposes-personal-data-of-millions-of-customers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposes millions<\/a>&#8221; (Source: The Inquirer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay safe, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/week-security-july-16-july-22\/\">A week in security (July 16 \u2013 July 22)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/week-security-july-16-july-22\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:30:01 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/week-security-july-16-july-22\/' title='A week in security (July 16 \u2013 July 22)'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shutterstock_610335074.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>A round up of the security news from July 16 \u2013 July 22, including the release of our quarterly Cybercrime tactics and techniques report, breaches, airport security, bug bounties, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Security world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/week-in-security\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Week in security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/bec\/\" rel=\"tag\">bec<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/bounty\/\" rel=\"tag\">bounty<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/breach\/\" rel=\"tag\">breach<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/data\/\" rel=\"tag\">data<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ransomware\/\" rel=\"tag\">ransomware<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/week-security-july-16-july-22\/' title='A week in security (July 16 \u2013 July 22)'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2018\/07\/week-security-july-16-july-22\/\">A week in security (July 16 \u2013 July 22)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[14347,19025,11510,6270,3764,3765,10497,10498],"class_list":["post-12882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-bec","tag-bounty","tag-breach","tag-data","tag-malware","tag-ransomware","tag-security-world","tag-week-in-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}